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| Maple platforms Dan ed,You have beautiful woods in your plinth and custom rack, and I don't doubt the superiority of dense hardwoods. What I'm suggesting is that anyone with a hard-mount TT on a wood block or in a wood case (e.g. Lenco, Garrard)try floating the e... | |
| Maple platforms Tom,Glad to read in your Faq that you also like sandboxes. I improved my sandbox by cutting up the wood plinth that rests on the sand to isolate suspension towers, motor, and flywheel from each other and prevent vibration from being conducted acro... | |
| Review: Tact Audio Tact 2.2x Preamplifier At the recent NY Home Entertainment show I found the clarity and neutrality of the TACT room refreshing in comparison to 80% of other systems in untreated or lightly treated rooms. Most systems displayed boomy bass and brittle treble belying their... | |
| Best subwoofer for a Wilson Puppy That's not an acceptable answer from the manufacturer, particularly for a product in production as long as the DD series. It should be a simple matter for Velodyne to give you FTP access to V2.0 software. Alternatively you could use digital EQ to ... | |
| Best subwoofer for a Wilson Puppy I never had a problem with this. Call Kurt at Velodyne tech support in Arizona at 928-858-4430. | |
| Best "album" of 2006 I lately discovered Chris Whitley's posthumous 2006 release "Dislocation Blues." This together with "Soft Dangerous Shores"(2005) testify to the artist's compositional power & Hendrix-like guitar work, filtered through the electric steel Natio... | |
| Audiophile TT article in Forbes Michael Fremer (and his Analog Corner column in Stereophile) is probably the individual most responsible for the current renaissance of interest in hi-end vinyl. If anybody deserves a tax deduction on a $100K TT, it's him. | |
| Audiophile TT article in Forbes Probably no issue with depreciating that TT for tax purposes, provided the tax deduction is partly recovered by the IRS later on, reflecting the proceeds of resale.And in the stratosphere of high-end TTs, anybody who pays anywhere near list price ... | |
| cleaning a laser Never had a problem with gentle use of a Q-Tip & a light dip of Windex. I believe this was once suggested by Alex Paychev of APL. | |
| Esoteric Mods I tried both kinds of Audio Consulting silver transformers in a DIY modded SCD-1 and ended up with the Silver Rocks. Many of the ideas & parts in the project came from RAM-- Kyle has always shared ideas freely. The sound of both transformers i... | |
| Esoteric Mods Mmitch, I've not used the RAM/Audio Consulting copper transformers, but I used both the "standard" OPT48 Silver and the Silver Rocks. The Silver Rocks sound quite a bit more refined but are not the most cost-effective mod you can throw into a high... | |
| Best Instruments in Analog Electric guitar. Consequently R&R just sounds better on vinyl, despite the thinner spectral balance that one typically hears with most vinyl as compared to the more visceral punch of digital. | |
| MC TRANSFORMERS VS TUBE PRE PRE I'm sure many will disagree, but I've not found the step-up transformer that doesn't sound synthetic relative to cartridge straight into tubes. I've tried Jensen & Cinemag with BAT P10 & Atma-Sphere MP-1. But step-ups are a necessary evil ... | |
| Please suggest serene, restful jazz recordings Charlie Haden/Gonzalo Rubalcaba "Land of the Sun"Charlie Haden "Nocturne"Charles Lloyd "The Water is Wide" or "Voice in the Night"Art Pepper "So In Love"Stan Getz "Pure Getz" | |
| The New BAT REX preamp Jjm,Before you add a second amp, do yourself a big favor and put V-Cap coupling caps in the VK75SE. You will hear a major improvement in bass control, dynamics, relaxation, transparency, treble detail & air, without sacrificing warmth. You can... |